A WHITEFIELD MAN with a record of 75 offences has been jailed again for assaulting a police officer after a car chase.

Magistrates gave serving prisoner, Christopher Lee Adams (27), of Grange Grove, two six-month sentences, to run concurrently, for assaulting the officer and taking a vehicle without authority.

Prosecuting, Mr Peter Edmondson described how the chase started at Bamford after two men in a car went through a stop sign. It continued to Darnhill in Heywood, where the car mounted a pavement and burst a tyre.

Adams, one of the men in the car, ran off and was pursued by a policeman until he was detained in a school car park. A violent struggle followed and the officer was punched several times in the face and around the head as he lay on the ground.

Mr Edmondson said as the policeman covered himself for protection Adams escaped.

When he was later arrested he denied all knowledge of the incident and claimed he had been at his mother's. But he was picked out by the officer at an identity parade. The earlier denial then changed to an admission of guilt.

The officer who was attacked suffered a black eye, grazes to the forehead and bruises to the body.

Mr Edmondson said: "I'd ask for compensation and for court costs but Adams is presently serving a three-year sentence. He also committed the offences one month after receiving two years probation and a twelve-month conditional discharge for other offences, and is subject to deferred sentences. In fact, he has a record of 75 offences."

Defending, Mr David Feingold, said his client knew there was little in the way of options for the magistrates. As he was already in prison it was almost academic.

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